I have very exciting news to share, but a disclaimer first: I am not an archaeologist; I have only picked up a bit of knowledge here and there through my interest in the topic. As I am working my way through the task of mapping all the buildings in County Tipperary in Ireland, my process usually involves switching from the Esri World Imagery (Clarity) Beta satellite imagery to the British War office map layer to see whether there are any historical things I can add as well. This is not part of the task (apart from the odd housename or name of a ruined church or castle), but it’s what keeps this tedious job interesting for me. A common feature I can add are ringforts (Wikipedia link), an early medieval settlement form in Ireland, often enough easily identifyable on the satellite imagery as a circular group of trees or a crop mark.

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Przegląd

W OSM mamy dokładne zasady opisywania szlaków turystycznych. Używamy tagu route=hiking. Postanowiłem się przyjrzeć szlakom w swojej okolicy.

Znam dwie aplikacje, które renderują wprowadzone szlaki, ale obie mają jakieś wady:

1. mapy.cz (podkład turystyczny)

• rzadko aktualizowane (czas trzeba liczyć w tygodniach)
• szlaki renderują się tylko w dużym przybliżeniu
• nie można wyświetlić szczegółów.

1. hiking.waymarkedtrails.org.

• szlaki nie wyświetlają się w swoich kolorach, tylko w zależności od ważności (tag network=lwn/rwn/nwn/iwn).

Stwierdziłem, że trzeba spróbować zrobić to w Overpassie :D

Renderowanie w Overpass

W pierwszej kolejności wybrałem wszystkie szlaki w jednym województwie: relation[route=hiking](area.searchArea);

Ale taki wygląd w niczym nie był lepszy, dlatego użyłem MapCSS i posłużyłem się tagiem colour=*

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Summary of mapping in Alameda, Petaluma, Elfland, and some code in iD.

I saw an OpenStreetMap diary recently “What I did in OpenStreetMap in March 2022”, and Amanda is on the right track. This is such a good idea to post about OpenStreetMap on a regular basis - I know that a monthly book blog has helped me read more often. I don’t know how to borrow this idea without outright stealing. For now I can maybe post a quarterly update?

Petaluma, CA

The map has building footprints, but almost none are labeled. I added restaurants, gas stations, a Whole Foods, and sculptures at the train station.

Alameda, CA

I walked from the ferry dock to my place, and looking back added some crosswalks (or converting footpath to crosswalk). A school in the neighborhood added a one-way pick-up/drop-off area and rearranged their sports fields to fit the remaining space, so that was a more complex edit.

Elfland, Somerville, MA

A colleague looked up Alameda on Google Maps and we started talking about which businesses and parks show up. She told me about “Elfland”, a collection of tiny buildings which appeared on a vacant lot in late 2021. After looking on Twitter to confirm some details, I removed the old gas station from OSM and added a sculpture marker.

Code in iD

In 2016 I added some code to iD for right-to-left language layout. In 2017 we discussed a notable weirdness to how street labels in many scripts showed up in Chrome. SVG textPath is really obscure so the Webkit bug goes back a long way. I was able to use Unicode presentation forms and JS to improve how Arabic and Hebrew appear in Chrome. Unfortunately other South Asian languages have multiple combining characters which can’t be faked like this.

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自宅周辺をマッピングしていて思うこと。

…駐車場多いな。

What I think when I try to map my neighborhood: …There are so many parking lots around here…

Treinamento/Suporte aos novos mapeadores

• No treinamento serão apresentadas as principais ferramentas de edição para uso dos mapeadores nas mapatonas mensais organizadas pela UMBRAOSM.

• Para este evento serão utilizados os editores ID e RapID, utilizados na plataforma HOT; o editor JOSM e alguns aplicativos para Android, como o Vespucci e o StreetComplete.

• Será utilizado o projeto da cidade de Nanuque/MG, o mesmo que foi utilizado na última mapatona.

• O treinamento será ministrado por mim (oliveiramau) e pelo usuário santamariense. Dúvidas podem ser tiradas com os mesmos, na comunidade da UMBRAOSM no Telegram.

Para participar, ingresse na sala remota no dia e hora do evento

Dia 27 de abril, às 17h30.

Как известно, в крупных городах власти используют видеонаблюдение для контроля общественного порядка. Мы уже привыкли, и не замечаем как работает эта система, принимая её как должное. Мне захотелось создать картину отображающую масштаб и свойства этого явления. Для этого мной были отмечено примерно 450 камер видеонаблюдения в районе Сокольники города Москва. Для формирования обходных листов, и поиска камер, использовался городской портал открытых данных.

Мне хочется немного рассказать о том как работает эта система, и как происходил сбор и внесение данных. Во первых, надо сказать что в Москве работает программа “Безопасный город”, в рамках которой выделяется три уровня наблюдения:

1. Реестр камер видеонаблюдения в местах массового скопления людей

https://data.mos.ru/opendata/2386

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It’s heartening to know that multilingualism is so valued in this community. I’ve enjoyed being able to kind of get the gist of posts on the new Discourse site that were originally written in German, Spanish, and soon other languages, thanks to the new 🌐 button. More recently, the proposal to install the Translate extension on the wiki has drawn quite a bit of passion both for and against.

Language diversity is important both on principle and in a practical sense. Supporting languages as first-class citizens can be an important tool for growing the project, reaching into untapped sources of new mappers who will improve the map and evangelize it within their communities. But there are strong opinions on how to manage translations, informed by years of pain from both inadequate software and poor translations. One way or another, I hope the buzz around this proposal will translate into a renewed interest in translating the wiki’s guides and tagging guidance, fixing unintended discrepancies across translations, and making it easier to find wiki pages in your language among search results.¹ If this extension isn’t the right tool for the job, I hope we can find one that is.

Regardless, I take comfort in knowing that most of the wiki’s translations will be handcrafted by skilled language speakers who understand OSM – with or without this extension.² Whatever concerns we have about eliminating or preserving semantic differences across translations would pale in comparison to the accidental misunderstanding that would arise from machine translations of the same technical documentation. Machine translations always fill the vacuum when hand translations are lacking.

Voting is open through May 6. The proposal needs 75% support to pass, since it adopted the wiki’s tagging proposal process. Please take the time to carefully read the proposal and its comments before jumping to conclusions. Voting has been suspended.

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As you remember from my last diary entry, I tried to make note-viewer communicate with editors. It was relatively easy to do with JOSM because JOSM supports remote control. If I want to open a bunch of notes in JOSM, I can make a remote control call for each note to open its url which JOSM understands. But with iD I had to concede a defeat. The easiest way to open selected notes in iD seems to be exporting the notes to a GPX file and opening it as a custom data layer.

map parameter

But since then you may have noticed that iD has appeared in note-viewer’s toolbar. That means I had a rematch with iD and although I didn’t win it either I got at least something. That something is opening a given map location in iD without losing the edits. That doesn’t seems like much and last time we could open iD at the coordinates we wanted. The difference is that now we can tell the already running iD instance to go there. If we look at the location bar while panning the map in iD we’ll see that map in the hash part is being updated with current coordinates. That’s not surprising, map is one of the documented parameters, we can open iD with map set to the place we need and iD will zoom there. But can we update the location ourselves while iD is running? We may try to edit it right in the location bar. For example, the first number of map value is zoom. Let’s change it and press enter. Nothing seems to happen…

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I’ve just started OSM editing, so I figure I’ll make a diary entry. I don’t expect to contribute a great deal of data, just things that I find relevant to my own usage of OSM (like most OSM contributors, I’m sure). At the moment, I’m numbering the buildings on my street and correcting building shapes so that Google Maps might hopefully pick up the improvements and so my own pet tracking app is a lot easier to comprehend.

There is chaos happening in the OpenStreetMap Hong Kong community recently. Someone keeps changing peak name into its old name and sometimes changing hamlet into its old name too. There are some senior OpenStreetMap contributors who remind him

and changed the names to old names. Some old names are original from Hakka people, which use different Chinese characters compared to Hong Kong Cantonese names.

The community members reverted his edit, and included the name he added as alt_name or old_name. But he doesn’t accept it, and changes back to the name he added. And of course not listening to others’ concerns. There are so many Hong Kong hiking apps using OpenStreetMap data. His edits made things worse for people who rely on apps’ map data.

He and the community members have edit wars for months. I use my Data Working Group privilege and hope to solve the chaos. I block several accounts and hope they could listen and discuss with the concerned community members. But soon we find out he has multi-accounts or a butch of coordinated accounts. And I have to block those accounts too.

Taiwan hiking community relies on OpenStreetMap data too, just like in Hong Kong. But fortunately, Taiwanese Hokkien origin names have just a few differences from Taiwanese Mandarin, compare to Hong Kong Hakka and Hong Kong Cantonese. Just a few years ago, the OpenStreetMap Taiwan community have an agreement with the Taiwan Hiking community, we will map the survey points and peaks separately. And will not upload survay GPS traces to the OpenStreetMap database.

OpenStreetMap Taiwan’s biggest use case is hiking. And the hiking trail is drawn and maintained by the hiking community in Taiwan, making the hiking trails very detail compare to roads network, POI, buildings and landuses in Taiwan. Taiwan situation is quite different compared to Africa, South Asia, or South East Asia, we didn’t have much use case of emergency.

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最近香港遐个 OpenStreetMap 社群有出代誌，有人一直共山的名改做舊的名，閣加添聚落的名改做舊的名。有較資深的人共伊講會當添加 alt_name 抑是 old_name 嘛袂聽得。有山友看袂落去，開記者會共大眾報告，紛擾香港社群幾個月的編輯戰佮欲予使用 OpenStreetMap 的人啥款的山區內容。

欲改逐家慣勢的山名的人，用一本家己踏查結果寫的冊，毋是經過學術方式檢驗內容，嘛忽略大眾有慣勢的山名，已經叫幾若年矣。有袂少山的古早名是客家人留落來的，用的漢字較這馬香港話是無啥仝。社群的人改伊的編輯，嘛予伊改轉來，嘛毋聽別人的解說佮顧慮。香港有誠濟用 OpenStreetMap 資料的山 app，予伊按呢改變亂操操。

𪜶編輯戰進行幾個月矣，幾工前我用 Data Working Group 的身份介入，共毋聽勸的口座封鎖，毋過看來伊有足濟口座，繼續編輯伊認為正確的山名佮地號名。好佳哉香港社群的人會當及時改就轉來，猶毋過一寡 app 猶是掠舊的地圖資料，予錯誤的資料留佇頂面。

其實親像 OpenStreetMap 佮維基百科，上驚一寡堅持家己是著的人，別人改in的資料，就趕緊改轉來，嘛無法度溝通。有骨力會社群，毋過予人封鎖，伊繼續創新口座繼續編輯，無咧放棄。

台灣嘛有發生相的代誌，有一个口座叫愛台灣的，毋知佗位揣的山路GPS，共別人的路線畫佇咧 OpenStreetMap 頂懸。有真濟揣無其他來源，可能是探查的路線嘛予人畫去。

嘛有人毋管基石佮上懸所在分開標示，共基石攏總改做山峰，予袂少人誤會。幾年前 OpenStreetMap 社群有共𬦰山社群講好矣，就是基石就是基石，山峰佮基石應該獨立標示。

臺灣遮的 OpenStreetMap 的發展重點佇咧𬦰山山路的部份，佮非洲、南亞、東南亞的國家是救災目的無仝。歐美遐的國家有完整的山路開放資料，所以逐家不論是公司、社團想欲做𬦰山地圖誠容易。臺灣無商業力量想欲做𬦰山地圖，煞予 OpenStreetMap 有機會發揮。

看著香港最近的事件，仝款有𬦰山的人愛開放街圖，靠熱心貢獻者，會當畫完整的山路。

• HK01 報導：行山｜共享地圖OpenStreetMap爆改地名大戰　山友憂慮增加意外
• 山城縱走 hkhiker意見
• 記者會直播

Treinamento da UMBRAOSM Abril 2022

UMBRAOSM Training April 2022.

Dia: 27 de Abril de 2022.

Hora: 17:30hs (UTC3).

Link do Treinamento: https://meet.google.com/aib-ieae-oai

UMBRAOSM - União dos Mapeadores Brasileiros do Openstreetmap www.umbraosm.com.br

Boa Noite!!

Convido(a) a participar do nosso grupo de mapeadores OpenStreetMap da UMBRAOSM ( União dos Mapeadores Brasileiros do Openstreetmap) no aplicativo Telegram, o link da nossa sala e esse; https://t.me/grupoumbraosm

Baixe o Aplicativo do Telegram na Loja de Aplicativo Play Store e Instale o APP, em seguida entre em nossa sala atraves do link´s https://t.me/grupoumbraosm

aguardo você em nossa sala.

Acompanhe os Projetos da UMBRAOSM no OpenstreetMap na Wiki; osm.wiki/Umbraosm

Nosso Site; www.umbraosm.com.br

No Site voce encontra link para ser usado no Openstreetmap, como sites com informações do IBGE, Site que e usado como ferramenta para o OSM, Aplicativos GPS usando o OSM, Data de Eventos e etc.

A UMBRAOSM - União dos Mapeadores Brasileiros do Openstreetmap Tem Disponivel Para Mapeamento diversas tarefas no site da HOT que podem ajudar no Mapeamento do Openstreetmap em todo o Brasil.

Terefas para Mapear na HOT.

BRASIL - PRAIA ILHA DE ITAMARACÁ (PE) - EDIFÍCIOS https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/12290

BRASIL -FERVEDOURO - (MG) - EDIFÍCIOS, ESTRADAS, PONTOS DE INTERESSE E ÁREA VERDE. https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/12343

BRASIL -MIRADOURO - (MG) - EDIFÍCIOS, ESTRADAS, PONTOS DE INTERESSE E ÁREA VERDE. https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/12344

BRASIL - VITORIA DE SANTO ANTÃO (PE) - MAPEAMENTO DE EDIFÍCIOS, ÁREAS VERDES E RIOS. https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/12089

BRASIL - PALMARES(PE) EDIFÍCIOS, AREA VERDE E PONTOS DE INTERESSE. https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/12266

Um forte abraço.,

Raphael de Assis

Recife-PE;

Membro do Coletivo UmbraOSM.

Coletivo UMBRAOSM - União dos Mapeadores Brasileiros do OpenstreetMap www.umbraosm.com.br

A seguito di una gradevole conversazione via email con un altro utente OSM, salvo qui tre utili URL personalizzati da usare come strato di sfondo in fase di modifica delle mappe sul sito OpenStreetMap con l’editor integrato iD. Clicca sull’icona “Impostazioni dello sfondo” nel menu verticale a destra, scorri la lista degli sfondi disponibili e scegli l’ultima voce “Personalizzato”, clicca sui tre puntini sulla destra, copia ed incolla uno degli URL personalizzati che trovi qua sotto ed infine clicca sul pulsante “OK” per salvare le modifiche ed iniziare ad utilizzare la nuova mappa.

1) True Ortofoto EagleFVG 2020

http://irdat-ortofoto.regione.fvg.it/geoserver/ows?FORMAT=image/png&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&VERSION=1.3.0&SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetMap&LAYERS=ortofoto:trueorto_FVG_1720&STYLES=&CRS={proj}&WIDTH={width}&HEIGHT={height}&BBOX={bbox}

2) Vector CTRN (Carta Tecnica Regionale Numerica) 1:5000

http://irdat-ortofoto.regione.fvg.it/geoserver/ows?FORMAT=image/png&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&VERSION=1.3.0&SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetMap&LAYERS=ortofoto:CTRN5000&STYLES=&CRS={proj}&WIDTH={width}&HEIGHT={height}&BBOX={bbox}

3) Hillshade

http://irdat-ortofoto.regione.fvg.it/geoserver/ows?FORMAT=image/png&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&VERSION=1.3.0&SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetMap&LAYERS=ortofoto:Hillshade&STYLES=&CRS={proj}&WIDTH={width}&HEIGHT={height}&BBOX={bbox}

After a pleasant email chat with another OSM user, I’m saving here three useful custom URLs to use as a background layer when editing maps on OpenStreetMap website with integrated iD editor. Just click on the “Background Settings” icon in the right vertical menu, scroll down the list of available backgrounds and choose the last item labeled “Custom”, click on the three dots on the right, copy and paste one of the custom URLs you can find below and finally click on the “OK” button to save changes and start using the newly added map layer.

1) True Ortofoto EagleFVG 2020

http://irdat-ortofoto.regione.fvg.it/geoserver/ows?FORMAT=image/png&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&VERSION=1.3.0&SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetMap&LAYERS=ortofoto:trueorto_FVG_1720&STYLES=&CRS={proj}&WIDTH={width}&HEIGHT={height}&BBOX={bbox}

2) Vector CTRN (Carta Tecnica Regionale Numerica) 1:5000

http://irdat-ortofoto.regione.fvg.it/geoserver/ows?FORMAT=image/png&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&VERSION=1.3.0&SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetMap&LAYERS=ortofoto:CTRN5000&STYLES=&CRS={proj}&WIDTH={width}&HEIGHT={height}&BBOX={bbox}

3) Hillshade

http://irdat-ortofoto.regione.fvg.it/geoserver/ows?FORMAT=image/png&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&VERSION=1.3.0&SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetMap&LAYERS=ortofoto:Hillshade&STYLES=&CRS={proj}&WIDTH={width}&HEIGHT={height}&BBOX={bbox}

During validation on HOT’s Tasking Manager giving feedback to mappers is crucial to enable improvement and encourage them to continue mapping. Beginners make the most errors, catching them as early as possible to provide constructive feedback can limit the quantity of errors and steer them in the right direction. This can lead to an overall increase in data quality.

I’ve outlined some of the most frequent feedback that I give to mappers while validating projects that involve mapping buildings as well as explaining the importance of intervening. Please feel free to use these comments in your own validation efforts on HOT’s Tasking Manager.

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Conférence des évêques de France

osm.org/relation/14062169

Travail à faire - Rang 1

1. Poursuivre la construction des diocèses
2. Créer les provinces
3. Assembler la CEF

Travail à faire - Rang 2

1. Ajouter les doyennés / paroisses aux diocèses certains existent (ex : https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ui/details.html?osmtype=R&osmid=1676230&class=boundary&hierarchy=1 / https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ui/details.html?osmtype=R&osmid=13054918&class=boundary&hierarchy=1), voir aussi sur https://osm-boundaries.com/Map

admin_level

• 1 : Conférence épiscopale
• 4 : Province ecclésiastique
• 6 : Diocèse
• 7 : Doyenné, …
• 8 : Paroisse

Ressources

• osm.wiki/User:FrViPofm
• osm.org/user/raspbeguy/diary/397271
• osm.org/user/cquest/
• osm.org/changeset/79060178 / osm.org/changeset/79455967 / osm.org/changeset/80070393

Today, we had an online meeting HOT Consultation on Measuring Our Collective Progress Towards Enabling Change. It was impactful on how to measure our collective program. Letting the government, private sector and humanitarian communities to see the need why they should help the actors(contributors of the open data source).

Alamat rumah Kg.jelki latarek, Kuala krai,18000 Kelantan

自宅近所のPOIや建物を隙間時間を使ってだいぶ追加しました。 ただここからどうしようかなとも思い始めています。建物の高さとか道路の幅とか測って入れるべき？あんまり使われないのも面白くないので、入れる意味があるのか分からず。

I’ve added many POIs and building near where I live. But I don’t know what to do next. Should I measure the height of buildings and the width of roads to have my neighborhood’s data more concise and completed? I wonder how much it makes sense if I do that.